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I have found that just moving a little each hour, with purpose, can go a long way to being more fit and getting in better shape. You don’t need to go do a full workout, you can just get up and move. I don’t recall who said it but it was something along the lines of “movement is life” and I would assume that the opposite would be “no movement is death.” I would also guess that back in the days of the cavemen, if they sat around too long in one place, they would become lunch for a hungry dinosaur. How many of you notice, when you are moving and exercising, you feel alive and loose but if you sit in a chair too long, you feel stiff and drained. I would guess that a lot of us more worldly adults feel the same way. If I sit in a chair or on the couch...
Read more of this articleStarting with a small workout will bring big results.
How many times have you wanted to workout but easily found too many excuses not to do it? Have you told yourself, “I will workout tomorrow”, “one day off won’t make a difference”, “the weather outside is awful and I don’t want to go to the gym”, “I worked out really hard yesterday so I deserve a day off” or my personal favorite, “I will workout twice as hard tomorrow.” Even though I have been working out for over 30 years, I still have those days where I just do not feel like training. After thinking about this problem, I have found a really simple way to satisfy my desire to workout every day. For example, I told myself a long time ago, if I practice Karate, specifically kata, each day, I will improve. The problem...
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Welcome to fitness4kicks.com, a new website dedicated to bringing you the latest information about fitness, working out and being healthy related to the Martial Arts. There are many websites loaded with excellent fitness information but I started this website to share my training experience related to Martial Arts, specifically Shotokan Karate. When I first started learning Karate in 2004, there was not much workout information available that applied specifically to Karate or the Martial Arts. Even now, after five years, much of the Karate and Martial Arts workout information is adapted from other sports or modified body building routines. I have found that working out like a body builder, like I did for close to 25 years, was counter productive to my Karate training. I was developing...
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